LOW ENERGY: Where Can We Source the Drive to Take Action? (Re-Publish)
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Many people just can’t rally to do what’s necessary and improve their lives. Is it possible they just don’t carry much vitality, or is some inner conflict blocking their access? We share personal stories of ‘energy loss’ and offer insights into purposelessness.
Carl Jung tells us inner energy flows according to its own laws, but if we can’t harness it? Expect to learn why some people are naturally low-energy, which aspects of your psyche might be leaking energy, how over-aligning with cultural norms can cut off access to instinctive vitality, where we can look for solutions, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | The team is taking some time off this week, so we thought we would republish one of our popular episodes from several years ago. |
| 0:07.9 | We picked this episode because this is an issue that brings a lot of people into treatment, low energy. |
| 0:15.5 | Something's not quite right in some way. |
| 0:18.7 | You can't find that you have the life force to do the things that |
| 0:22.9 | you need to do or you manage to do them, but it feels like you're dragging yourself through the day. |
| 0:28.6 | So how do we understand that? Sometimes there are physical, biological issues that need to be |
| 0:34.6 | addressed. Sometimes we're maybe a little bit depressed. When things are |
| 0:39.3 | really crazy in the world, the overwhelming background anxiety that we're all living with can |
| 0:45.6 | drain our energy. But low energy can also be a signal that something's not quite right, |
| 0:53.4 | but we don't yet have words for what's wrong. We don't |
| 0:56.7 | have a way to conceptualize that. And at that point, it can be important to start listening to what |
| 1:02.6 | the unconscious might be trying to tell us. So I hope you'll enjoy today's rebroadcast of our |
| 1:08.6 | episode on Low Energy. |
| 1:19.5 | Welcome to this Jungian life. Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that |
| 1:25.0 | brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 1:30.6 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 1:34.7 | I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 1:39.7 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod. |
| 1:54.6 | Music Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst on Cape Cod. Hi, everybody. |
| 1:55.7 | This is Joseph on this Jungian Life podcast, and I have a direct request. |
| 2:01.7 | Would you just take a moment if you're on YouTube and click the subscribe button, |
| 2:08.9 | and if you're on Apple Podcast, just click Follow. |
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